The Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo is proud to offer a PhD-course with Professor Lois McNay in September 2019. The course is intended to explore key topics in the social theories of Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault and Axel Honneth.

This symposium, dedicated to the scholarship of our newly appointed Professor II, Lois McNay, aims to explore the potentials and challenges of McNay’s scholarship, to revitalize and further develop feminist theorizing grounded in the lived experience of structural oppression in neoliberal capitalist society.

Welcome to the fourth seminar in Queer seminars/Skeiv seminarrekke with Claire Poppelwell-Scevak (Pluri Courts, Faculty of Law, UiO / PhD candidate, University of Ghent): Same-sex marriage and LHBTQI rights at the European Court on Human Rights.

The Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS) and the Centre for Gender Research (STK) at the University of Oslo warmly invite you to take part in a one-day conference for PhD students and postdoctoral scholars within the humanities.

The day after Donald Trump’s inauguration as president, 4,5 million people took to the streets in Women’s Marches all over the world, in one of the largest civil rights demonstrations in history. Hannah Helseth and Nancy Fraser will discuss the road ahead for feminism.

The Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo is proud to offer a PhD-course with professor Nancy Fraser this autumn. Nancy Fraser is a Henry A. & Louise Loeb Professor of Political & Social Science at The New School for Social Research and professor II at Centre for Gender Research (STK), University of Oslo.

The Norwegian Institute at Athens, in collaboration with the Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo, gather scholars to revisit and renew models and understandings of textual, visual and material representations of sex/gender in the ancient world.